Why NYCLooks the Way it Does? In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Manhattan's street grid, architects were asked to imagine the future of the city's master plan. Read about the competition on MetroFocus (http://ow.ly/7UtR5) and watch Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham's video tour of the project's exhibition.

published:16 Aug 2012

views:16898

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it's the city's great public spaces -- from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades -- where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city's newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love -- and why it's important.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
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published:07 Apr 2014

views:184450

The NYCDepartment of City Planning created this short video to explain special zoning regulations that apply to the floodplain. This video is part of an extensive public campaign to share information on flood risk and flood resistant construction requirements. The goal of this outreach is to generate input on how to modify zoning rules to remove regulatory barriers to resiliency investments and make neighborhoods more resilient.
For more information, please visit http://www.nyc.gov/resilientneighborhoods
Captions available in English and Spanish.

published:21 Sep 2017

views:2013

Downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for decades for low-rise buildings of modest economic aspirations, has recently witnessed a rising forest of "luxury" high-rises. How did this reversal come about? Read the full story at http://thenat.in/ZzPKej

published:18 Apr 2013

views:3859

Researchers and urban planners are turning New York City into a proving ground for Big Data and the interactive technologies that one day might make a planet of cities sustainable and livable. Photo: Michael Rubenstein for The Wall Street Journal
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Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
Read more: http://www.vox.com/2016/8/4/12342806/barcelona-superblocks
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published:27 Sep 2016

views:2349946

DespiteAlbany's prominence as the state capital of New York, over the years, large swaths of the city's urban core have been either destroyed or in decline.
Earlier this year, for the first time in the city's 400 year history, it adopted a comprehensive urban plan, aimed at turning things around.
It outlines ways to improve everything from public transportation, to education, and affordable housing over the next 20 years.
Reporter/producer/editor: Marie Cusick of WMHT-TVPhotographer: MikeMelita of WMHT-TV

published:16 Oct 2012

views:18163

This video was created for a GeographyProject on the topic Problems in MajorUrbanCities. I decided to post it on Youtube bc I thought it might be educational (?) Hope it helps :)
PS there are some typos bc it was rushed since the due date alr passed.

published:15 Dec 2015

views:7971

In the early 19th century, John Randel Jr. set about planning what would become the gridded street plan of Manhattan. Randel spent ten years walking the entirety of the city, marking each future intersection with either a bolt or marble monument. Two hundred years later, one of the bolts still survives in a hidden spot in Central Park.
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published:18 Dec 2015

views:29502

That bench won't be yours forever.
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When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities are some of the most diverse places on the planet. They need to be built for a variety of needs.
In recent years, these competing interests have surfaced conflict over an unlikely interest: purposefully uncomfortable benches.
Enter the New York CityMTA. They’ve installed 'leaning bars’ to supplement traditional benches & save platform space. But designs like this carry an often invisible cost: they rob citizens of hospitable public space. And the people who experience this cost most directly are those experiencing homelessness.
A few notes of thanks:
First to Historian A. Roger Ekirch who kindly got me up to speed on the expansion of streetlights in historic western city districts.
Another thanks goes to author Veronica Harnish, who outlined some of the pitfalls that people experiencing homelessness face when choosing between sleeping rough or utilizing emergency shelters. You can read her blog here: http://car-living.blogspot.com/
A third thank you goes to the staff at the Unites StatesInteragency Council on Homelessness — they supplied the map in this video, as well as some aggregate statistics of the United States homeless population. Those numbers come from a variety of annual ‘Point-In-Time’ counts. The 2018 event will take place in late January, and the process depends on volunteers — so if you'd like to participate, you can find your local organizer here: https://www.hudexchange.info/grantees/find-a-grantee/?state=&program=on&coc=on&params=%7B%22limit%22%3A20%2C%22sort%22%3A%22%22%2C%22years%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22searchTerm%22%3A%22%22%2C%22dir%22%3A%22%22%2C%22grantees%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22state%22%3A%22%22%2C%22programs%22%3A%5B3%5D%2C%22coc%22%3Atrue%7D##granteeSearch
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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the use of land, protection and use of the environment, public welfare, and the design of the urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks. Urban Planning is also referred to as urban and regional, regional, town, city, rural planning or some combination in various areas worldwide. Urban planning takes many forms and it can share perspectives and practices with urban design.

Urban planning guides and ensures the orderly development of settlements and satellite communities which commute into and out of urban areas or share resources with it. Urban planners in the field are concerned with research and analysis, strategic thinking, architecture, urban design, public consultation, policy recommendations, implementation and management.

Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State. The five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 8,491,079 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. By 2014 census estimates, the New York City metropolitan region remains by a significant margin the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.1million residents) and the Combined Statistical Area (23.6million residents). In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly US$1.39trillion, while in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55trillion, both ranking first nationally by a wide margin and behind the GDP of only twelve and eleven countries, respectively.

York

York (i/ˈjɔːrk/) is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England, and is the traditional county town of Yorkshire to which it gives its name. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events in England throughout much of its two millennia of existence. The city offers a wealth of historic attractions, of which York Minster is the most prominent, and a variety of cultural and sporting activities making it a popular tourist destination for millions.

In the 19thcentury, York became a hub of the railway network and a confectionery manufacturing centre. In recent decades, the economy of York has moved from being dominated by its confectionery and railway-related industries to one that provides services. The University of York and health services have become major employers, whilst tourism has become an important element of the local economy.

MetroFocus | The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan

Why NYCLooks the Way it Does? In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Manhattan's street grid, architects were asked to imagine the future of the city's master plan. Read about the competition on MetroFocus (http://ow.ly/7UtR5) and watch Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham's video tour of the project's exhibition.

18:29

Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work

Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work

Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it's the city's great public spaces -- from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades -- where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city's newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love -- and why it's important.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
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6:34

Planning A Resilient New York City

Planning A Resilient New York City

Planning A Resilient New York City

The NYCDepartment of City Planning created this short video to explain special zoning regulations that apply to the floodplain. This video is part of an extensive public campaign to share information on flood risk and flood resistant construction requirements. The goal of this outreach is to generate input on how to modify zoning rules to remove regulatory barriers to resiliency investments and make neighborhoods more resilient.
For more information, please visit http://www.nyc.gov/resilientneighborhoods
Captions available in English and Spanish.

3:20

Doug Henwood: Planning New York City

Doug Henwood: Planning New York City

Doug Henwood: Planning New York City

Downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for decades for low-rise buildings of modest economic aspirations, has recently witnessed a rising forest of "luxury" high-rises. How did this reversal come about? Read the full story at http://thenat.in/ZzPKej

7:15

Planning for an Urban World

Planning for an Urban World

Planning for an Urban World

Researchers and urban planners are turning New York City into a proving ground for Big Data and the interactive technologies that one day might make a planet of cities sustainable and livable. Photo: Michael Rubenstein for The Wall Street Journal
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6:56

The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan--Curated by NYU's Hilary Ballon

The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan--Curated by NYU's Hilary Ballon

The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan--Curated by NYU's Hilary Ballon

Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
Read more: http://www.vox.com/2016/8/4/12342806/barcelona-superblocks
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6:07

Urban planning in Albany, New York

Urban planning in Albany, New York

Urban planning in Albany, New York

DespiteAlbany's prominence as the state capital of New York, over the years, large swaths of the city's urban core have been either destroyed or in decline.
Earlier this year, for the first time in the city's 400 year history, it adopted a comprehensive urban plan, aimed at turning things around.
It outlines ways to improve everything from public transportation, to education, and affordable housing over the next 20 years.
Reporter/producer/editor: Marie Cusick of WMHT-TVPhotographer: MikeMelita of WMHT-TV

4:28

Problems in Major Cities: New York City

Problems in Major Cities: New York City

Problems in Major Cities: New York City

This video was created for a GeographyProject on the topic Problems in MajorUrbanCities. I decided to post it on Youtube bc I thought it might be educational (?) Hope it helps :)
PS there are some typos bc it was rushed since the due date alr passed.

2:25

NYC grid explained

NYC grid explained

NYC grid explained

In the early 19th century, John Randel Jr. set about planning what would become the gridded street plan of Manhattan. Randel spent ten years walking the entirety of the city, marking each future intersection with either a bolt or marble monument. Two hundred years later, one of the bolts still survives in a hidden spot in Central Park.
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4:00

Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches

Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches

Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches

That bench won't be yours forever.
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When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities are some of the most diverse places on the planet. They need to be built for a variety of needs.
In recent years, these competing interests have surfaced conflict over an unlikely interest: purposefully uncomfortable benches.
Enter the New York CityMTA. They’ve installed 'leaning bars’ to supplement traditional benches & save platform space. But designs like this carry an often invisible cost: they rob citizens of hospitable public space. And the people who experience this cost most directly are those experiencing homelessness.
A few notes of thanks:
First to Historian A. Roger Ekirch who kindly got me up to speed on the expansion of streetlights in historic western city districts.
Another thanks goes to author Veronica Harnish, who outlined some of the pitfalls that people experiencing homelessness face when choosing between sleeping rough or utilizing emergency shelters. You can read her blog here: http://car-living.blogspot.com/
A third thank you goes to the staff at the Unites StatesInteragency Council on Homelessness — they supplied the map in this video, as well as some aggregate statistics of the United States homeless population. Those numbers come from a variety of annual ‘Point-In-Time’ counts. The 2018 event will take place in late January, and the process depends on volunteers — so if you'd like to participate, you can find your local organizer here: https://www.hudexchange.info/grantees/find-a-grantee/?state=&program=on&coc=on&params=%7B%22limit%22%3A20%2C%22sort%22%3A%22%22%2C%22years%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22searchTerm%22%3A%22%22%2C%22dir%22%3A%22%22%2C%22grantees%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22state%22%3A%22%22%2C%22programs%22%3A%5B3%5D%2C%22coc%22%3Atrue%7D##granteeSearch
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New York: America's MEGACITY

The story of New York City, America's megalopolis.
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"If you really believe that suburbs are going to die, then let them die, and let the market address the situation" says Joel Kotkin, Chapman University professor and urban planning specialist.
But letting the market work is far from ideal for California's regional planners and local politicians, who want almost 70 percent of new housing over the next 25 years to be multi-unit apartment-style dwelliings, despite the facts that more than half of Southern California households reside in a single-family home and that more people are leaving California than are coming in.
"In a great nation like ours, you can't let people do what they want. It has to be coordinated," says Hasan Ikhrata, the executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Ikhrata's group, which directs planning for the Southern California region via subsidies and contracting with big developers, foresees a future in which Southern California is dense, full of high-rise buildings, and connected by rail, much like New York City.
The problem is, LA isn't New York. No city but New York is New York, and attempts to force high-density, New York-style development onto areas that don't need it can result in terrible unintended consequences.
"Many people see a light rail and think the San Francisco trolley line," says Damien Goodmon, spokesman for the CrenshawSubwayCoalition. He lives in LA's historical black neighborhood Leimert Park and has seen the effects bad planning can have on established communities.
"You can have transit riders and still destroy a community," says Goodmon.
And the ultimate irony of the unending push for high-density planning in sprawling Southern California is that while, yes, Manhattan is denser than LA, if you zoom out a bit, LA-Long Beach-Anaheim is already the densest urban region in the United States. That happened without any sustained, conscious high-density housing development or state-of-the-art rail transit.
"One of the things that happens when you force this kind of high-density development is you destroy the very urban neighborhoods that retain the middle class," says Kotkin. "The neighborhoods have to fight this kind of guerilla-style."
Watch the Reason TV video above to learn more about the ideology, politics, and outcomes of modern urban planning.
About 6:30 minutes.
Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Shot by SharifMatar, PaulDetrick and Weissmueller.
Visithttp://reason.com/reasontv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.

23:50

Urban Planning: How to Create a Transit Friendly City Environment - Cities in the Balance Video

Urban Planning: How to Create a Transit Friendly City Environment - Cities in the Balance Video

Urban Planning: How to Create a Transit Friendly City Environment - Cities in the Balance Video

Urban Preppers: Is This New York’s Most Prepared Man? | NBC Left Field

Urban Preppers: Is This New York’s Most Prepared Man? | NBC Left Field

Urban Preppers: Is This New York’s Most Prepared Man? | NBC Left Field

Almost two-thirds of American households reportedly aren’t prepared for a disaster. We talked to Jason Charles, a New York City firefighter and the organizer of the NYC Preppers Network, about why, in 2017, there’s now no good excuse for not planning for the worst.
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4:39

How highways wrecked American cities

How highways wrecked American cities

How highways wrecked American cities

The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation.
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New York City Zoning Resolution at 50 Years - Urban Planning

New York City's zoning resolution turns 50 in 2011. As the city has grown, so has this document -- it has increased by more than 900 pages and numerous new special districts have been created. Considering how dramatically the city has changed since 1961, does the resolution still adequately and comprehensively address the challenges the city faces today? Is it necessary to revamp or rewrite the regulations as many cities around the country are doing?

MetroFocus | The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan

Why NYCLooks the Way it Does? In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Manhattan's street grid, architects were asked to imagine the future of the city's master plan. Read about the competition on MetroFocus (http://ow.ly/7UtR5) and watch Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham's video tour of the project's exhibition.

published: 16 Aug 2012

Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it's the city's great public spaces -- from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades -- where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city's newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love -- and why it's important.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
Find closed captions ...

published: 07 Apr 2014

Planning A Resilient New York City

The NYCDepartment of City Planning created this short video to explain special zoning regulations that apply to the floodplain. This video is part of an extensive public campaign to share information on flood risk and flood resistant construction requirements. The goal of this outreach is to generate input on how to modify zoning rules to remove regulatory barriers to resiliency investments and make neighborhoods more resilient.
For more information, please visit http://www.nyc.gov/resilientneighborhoods
Captions available in English and Spanish.

published: 21 Sep 2017

Doug Henwood: Planning New York City

Downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for decades for low-rise buildings of modest economic aspirations, has recently witnessed a rising forest of "luxury" high-rises. How did this reversal come about? Read the full story at http://thenat.in/ZzPKej

published: 18 Apr 2013

Planning for an Urban World

Researchers and urban planners are turning New York City into a proving ground for Big Data and the interactive technologies that one day might make a planet of cities sustainable and livable. Photo: Michael Rubenstein for The Wall Street Journal
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published: 11 Dec 2015

The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan--Curated by NYU's Hilary Ballon

Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
Read more: http://www.vox.com/2016/8/4/12342806/barcelona-superblocks
Thumbnail image from http://shutterstock.com
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published: 27 Sep 2016

Urban planning in Albany, New York

DespiteAlbany's prominence as the state capital of New York, over the years, large swaths of the city's urban core have been either destroyed or in decline.
Earlier this year, for the first time in the city's 400 year history, it adopted a comprehensive urban plan, aimed at turning things around.
It outlines ways to improve everything from public transportation, to education, and affordable housing over the next 20 years.
Reporter/producer/editor: Marie Cusick of WMHT-TVPhotographer: MikeMelita of WMHT-TV

published: 16 Oct 2012

Problems in Major Cities: New York City

This video was created for a GeographyProject on the topic Problems in MajorUrbanCities. I decided to post it on Youtube bc I thought it might be educational (?) Hope it helps :)
PS there are some typos bc it was rushed since the due date alr passed.

published: 15 Dec 2015

NYC grid explained

In the early 19th century, John Randel Jr. set about planning what would become the gridded street plan of Manhattan. Randel spent ten years walking the entirety of the city, marking each future intersection with either a bolt or marble monument. Two hundred years later, one of the bolts still survives in a hidden spot in Central Park.
Produced by Matthew StuartRead more: http://www.techinsider.io/
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published: 18 Dec 2015

Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches

That bench won't be yours forever.
Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities are some of the most diverse places on the planet. They need to be built for a variety of needs.
In recent years, these competing interests have surfaced conflict over an unlikely interest: purposefully uncomfortable benches.
Enter the New York CityMTA. They’ve installed 'leaning bars’ to supplement traditional benches & save platform space. But designs like this carry an often invisible cost: they rob citizens of hospitable public space. And the people who experience this cost most directly are those experiencing homelessness.
A few notes of thanks:
First to Historian A. Roger Ekirch who kindly got ...

New York: America's MEGACITY

The story of New York City, America's megalopolis.
Subscribe to TDC: https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConversation/
More on New York City's history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqYNNOsgpqc
Citizen Jane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKjkjntspfA
Video by Bryce Plank
Visualization by Robin WestMusic:
Matt Stewart-Evans
https://soundcloud.com/mattstewartevans
Glimpse:
https://soundcloud.com/glimpse_official

"If you really believe that suburbs are going to die, then let them die, and let the market address the situation" says Joel Kotkin, Chapman University professor and urban planning specialist.
But letting the market work is far from ideal for California's regional planners and local politicians, who want almost 70 percent of new housing over the next 25 years to be multi-unit apartment-style dwelliings, despite the facts that more than half of Southern California households reside in a single-family home and that more people are leaving California than are coming in.
"In a great nation like ours, you can't let people do what they want. It has to be coordinated," says Hasan Ikhrata, the executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Ikhrata's group, which...

published: 18 Apr 2013

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Urban Preppers: Is This New York’s Most Prepared Man? | NBC Left Field

Almost two-thirds of American households reportedly aren’t prepared for a disaster. We talked to Jason Charles, a New York City firefighter and the organizer of the NYC Preppers Network, about why, in 2017, there’s now no good excuse for not planning for the worst.
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How highways wrecked American cities

The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation.
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Why don't more U.S. cities have metro systems like New York?

The subway was my favorite part of living New York. The NewYork subway has more stations than any other metro system in the world (472), meaning I could just pop up just about anywhere in the city and live there entirely without a car. It was great. When I moved away, I couldn’t help but wonder — why do so few U.S. cities have subways?
Resources on this topic:
How Much DoesRailTransit Cost to Build and Operate:
https://www.thoughtco.com/rail-transit-projects-costs-2798796
Urban Densities and Transit: A Multi-dimensional Perspective:
http://www.its.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/publications/UCB/2011/VWP/UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-6.pdf
Loo, B. P. Y., & Cheng, A. H. T. (2010). Are there useful yardsticks of population size and income level for building metro systems? Some worldwide evidence...

New York City Zoning Resolution at 50 Years - Urban Planning

New York City's zoning resolution turns 50 in 2011. As the city has grown, so has this document -- it has increased by more than 900 pages and numerous new special districts have been created. Considering how dramatically the city has changed since 1961, does the resolution still adequately and comprehensively address the challenges the city faces today? Is it necessary to revamp or rewrite the regulations as many cities around the country are doing?

MetroFocus | The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan

Why NYCLooks the Way it Does? In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Manhattan's street grid, architects were asked to imagine the future of the city's mas...

Why NYCLooks the Way it Does? In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Manhattan's street grid, architects were asked to imagine the future of the city's master plan. Read about the competition on MetroFocus (http://ow.ly/7UtR5) and watch Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham's video tour of the project's exhibition.

Why NYCLooks the Way it Does? In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Manhattan's street grid, architects were asked to imagine the future of the city's master plan. Read about the competition on MetroFocus (http://ow.ly/7UtR5) and watch Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham's video tour of the project's exhibition.

Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it's the city's great public spaces -- from tiny pock...

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it's the city's great public spaces -- from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades -- where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city's newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love -- and why it's important.
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More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it's the city's great public spaces -- from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades -- where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city's newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love -- and why it's important.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
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Planning A Resilient New York City

The NYCDepartment of City Planning created this short video to explain special zoning regulations that apply to the floodplain. This video is part of an extens...

The NYCDepartment of City Planning created this short video to explain special zoning regulations that apply to the floodplain. This video is part of an extensive public campaign to share information on flood risk and flood resistant construction requirements. The goal of this outreach is to generate input on how to modify zoning rules to remove regulatory barriers to resiliency investments and make neighborhoods more resilient.
For more information, please visit http://www.nyc.gov/resilientneighborhoods
Captions available in English and Spanish.

The NYCDepartment of City Planning created this short video to explain special zoning regulations that apply to the floodplain. This video is part of an extensive public campaign to share information on flood risk and flood resistant construction requirements. The goal of this outreach is to generate input on how to modify zoning rules to remove regulatory barriers to resiliency investments and make neighborhoods more resilient.
For more information, please visit http://www.nyc.gov/resilientneighborhoods
Captions available in English and Spanish.

Doug Henwood: Planning New York City

Downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for decades for low-rise buildings of modest economic aspirations, has recently witnessed a rising forest of "luxury" hi...

Downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for decades for low-rise buildings of modest economic aspirations, has recently witnessed a rising forest of "luxury" high-rises. How did this reversal come about? Read the full story at http://thenat.in/ZzPKej

Downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for decades for low-rise buildings of modest economic aspirations, has recently witnessed a rising forest of "luxury" high-rises. How did this reversal come about? Read the full story at http://thenat.in/ZzPKej

Planning for an Urban World

Researchers and urban planners are turning New York City into a proving ground for Big Data and the interactive technologies that one day might make a planet of...

Researchers and urban planners are turning New York City into a proving ground for Big Data and the interactive technologies that one day might make a planet of cities sustainable and livable. Photo: Michael Rubenstein for The Wall Street Journal
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Researchers and urban planners are turning New York City into a proving ground for Big Data and the interactive technologies that one day might make a planet of cities sustainable and livable. Photo: Michael Rubenstein for The Wall Street Journal
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The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan--Curated by NYU's Hilary Ballon

Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
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Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
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Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
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Urban planning in Albany, New York

DespiteAlbany's prominence as the state capital of New York, over the years, large swaths of the city's urban core have been either destroyed or in decline.
E...

DespiteAlbany's prominence as the state capital of New York, over the years, large swaths of the city's urban core have been either destroyed or in decline.
Earlier this year, for the first time in the city's 400 year history, it adopted a comprehensive urban plan, aimed at turning things around.
It outlines ways to improve everything from public transportation, to education, and affordable housing over the next 20 years.
Reporter/producer/editor: Marie Cusick of WMHT-TVPhotographer: MikeMelita of WMHT-TV

DespiteAlbany's prominence as the state capital of New York, over the years, large swaths of the city's urban core have been either destroyed or in decline.
Earlier this year, for the first time in the city's 400 year history, it adopted a comprehensive urban plan, aimed at turning things around.
It outlines ways to improve everything from public transportation, to education, and affordable housing over the next 20 years.
Reporter/producer/editor: Marie Cusick of WMHT-TVPhotographer: MikeMelita of WMHT-TV

This video was created for a GeographyProject on the topic Problems in MajorUrbanCities. I decided to post it on Youtube bc I thought it might be educational (?) Hope it helps :)
PS there are some typos bc it was rushed since the due date alr passed.

This video was created for a GeographyProject on the topic Problems in MajorUrbanCities. I decided to post it on Youtube bc I thought it might be educational (?) Hope it helps :)
PS there are some typos bc it was rushed since the due date alr passed.

In the early 19th century, John Randel Jr. set about planning what would become the gridded street plan of Manhattan. Randel spent ten years walking the entirety of the city, marking each future intersection with either a bolt or marble monument. Two hundred years later, one of the bolts still survives in a hidden spot in Central Park.
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In the early 19th century, John Randel Jr. set about planning what would become the gridded street plan of Manhattan. Randel spent ten years walking the entirety of the city, marking each future intersection with either a bolt or marble monument. Two hundred years later, one of the bolts still survives in a hidden spot in Central Park.
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Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches

That bench won't be yours forever.
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That bench won't be yours forever.
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When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities are some of the most diverse places on the planet. They need to be built for a variety of needs.
In recent years, these competing interests have surfaced conflict over an unlikely interest: purposefully uncomfortable benches.
Enter the New York CityMTA. They’ve installed 'leaning bars’ to supplement traditional benches & save platform space. But designs like this carry an often invisible cost: they rob citizens of hospitable public space. And the people who experience this cost most directly are those experiencing homelessness.
A few notes of thanks:
First to Historian A. Roger Ekirch who kindly got me up to speed on the expansion of streetlights in historic western city districts.
Another thanks goes to author Veronica Harnish, who outlined some of the pitfalls that people experiencing homelessness face when choosing between sleeping rough or utilizing emergency shelters. You can read her blog here: http://car-living.blogspot.com/
A third thank you goes to the staff at the Unites StatesInteragency Council on Homelessness — they supplied the map in this video, as well as some aggregate statistics of the United States homeless population. Those numbers come from a variety of annual ‘Point-In-Time’ counts. The 2018 event will take place in late January, and the process depends on volunteers — so if you'd like to participate, you can find your local organizer here: https://www.hudexchange.info/grantees/find-a-grantee/?state=&program=on&coc=on&params=%7B%22limit%22%3A20%2C%22sort%22%3A%22%22%2C%22years%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22searchTerm%22%3A%22%22%2C%22dir%22%3A%22%22%2C%22grantees%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22state%22%3A%22%22%2C%22programs%22%3A%5B3%5D%2C%22coc%22%3Atrue%7D##granteeSearch
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That bench won't be yours forever.
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When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities are some of the most diverse places on the planet. They need to be built for a variety of needs.
In recent years, these competing interests have surfaced conflict over an unlikely interest: purposefully uncomfortable benches.
Enter the New York CityMTA. They’ve installed 'leaning bars’ to supplement traditional benches & save platform space. But designs like this carry an often invisible cost: they rob citizens of hospitable public space. And the people who experience this cost most directly are those experiencing homelessness.
A few notes of thanks:
First to Historian A. Roger Ekirch who kindly got me up to speed on the expansion of streetlights in historic western city districts.
Another thanks goes to author Veronica Harnish, who outlined some of the pitfalls that people experiencing homelessness face when choosing between sleeping rough or utilizing emergency shelters. You can read her blog here: http://car-living.blogspot.com/
A third thank you goes to the staff at the Unites StatesInteragency Council on Homelessness — they supplied the map in this video, as well as some aggregate statistics of the United States homeless population. Those numbers come from a variety of annual ‘Point-In-Time’ counts. The 2018 event will take place in late January, and the process depends on volunteers — so if you'd like to participate, you can find your local organizer here: https://www.hudexchange.info/grantees/find-a-grantee/?state=&program=on&coc=on&params=%7B%22limit%22%3A20%2C%22sort%22%3A%22%22%2C%22years%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22searchTerm%22%3A%22%22%2C%22dir%22%3A%22%22%2C%22grantees%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22state%22%3A%22%22%2C%22programs%22%3A%5B3%5D%2C%22coc%22%3Atrue%7D##granteeSearch
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New York: America's MEGACITY

The story of New York City, America's megalopolis.
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The story of New York City, America's megalopolis.
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Citizen Jane:
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Visualization by Robin WestMusic:
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The story of New York City, America's megalopolis.
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"If you really believe that suburbs are going to die, then let them die, and let the market address the situation" says Joel Kotkin, Chapman University professo...

"If you really believe that suburbs are going to die, then let them die, and let the market address the situation" says Joel Kotkin, Chapman University professor and urban planning specialist.
But letting the market work is far from ideal for California's regional planners and local politicians, who want almost 70 percent of new housing over the next 25 years to be multi-unit apartment-style dwelliings, despite the facts that more than half of Southern California households reside in a single-family home and that more people are leaving California than are coming in.
"In a great nation like ours, you can't let people do what they want. It has to be coordinated," says Hasan Ikhrata, the executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Ikhrata's group, which directs planning for the Southern California region via subsidies and contracting with big developers, foresees a future in which Southern California is dense, full of high-rise buildings, and connected by rail, much like New York City.
The problem is, LA isn't New York. No city but New York is New York, and attempts to force high-density, New York-style development onto areas that don't need it can result in terrible unintended consequences.
"Many people see a light rail and think the San Francisco trolley line," says Damien Goodmon, spokesman for the CrenshawSubwayCoalition. He lives in LA's historical black neighborhood Leimert Park and has seen the effects bad planning can have on established communities.
"You can have transit riders and still destroy a community," says Goodmon.
And the ultimate irony of the unending push for high-density planning in sprawling Southern California is that while, yes, Manhattan is denser than LA, if you zoom out a bit, LA-Long Beach-Anaheim is already the densest urban region in the United States. That happened without any sustained, conscious high-density housing development or state-of-the-art rail transit.
"One of the things that happens when you force this kind of high-density development is you destroy the very urban neighborhoods that retain the middle class," says Kotkin. "The neighborhoods have to fight this kind of guerilla-style."
Watch the Reason TV video above to learn more about the ideology, politics, and outcomes of modern urban planning.
About 6:30 minutes.
Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Shot by SharifMatar, PaulDetrick and Weissmueller.
Visithttp://reason.com/reasontv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.

"If you really believe that suburbs are going to die, then let them die, and let the market address the situation" says Joel Kotkin, Chapman University professor and urban planning specialist.
But letting the market work is far from ideal for California's regional planners and local politicians, who want almost 70 percent of new housing over the next 25 years to be multi-unit apartment-style dwelliings, despite the facts that more than half of Southern California households reside in a single-family home and that more people are leaving California than are coming in.
"In a great nation like ours, you can't let people do what they want. It has to be coordinated," says Hasan Ikhrata, the executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Ikhrata's group, which directs planning for the Southern California region via subsidies and contracting with big developers, foresees a future in which Southern California is dense, full of high-rise buildings, and connected by rail, much like New York City.
The problem is, LA isn't New York. No city but New York is New York, and attempts to force high-density, New York-style development onto areas that don't need it can result in terrible unintended consequences.
"Many people see a light rail and think the San Francisco trolley line," says Damien Goodmon, spokesman for the CrenshawSubwayCoalition. He lives in LA's historical black neighborhood Leimert Park and has seen the effects bad planning can have on established communities.
"You can have transit riders and still destroy a community," says Goodmon.
And the ultimate irony of the unending push for high-density planning in sprawling Southern California is that while, yes, Manhattan is denser than LA, if you zoom out a bit, LA-Long Beach-Anaheim is already the densest urban region in the United States. That happened without any sustained, conscious high-density housing development or state-of-the-art rail transit.
"One of the things that happens when you force this kind of high-density development is you destroy the very urban neighborhoods that retain the middle class," says Kotkin. "The neighborhoods have to fight this kind of guerilla-style."
Watch the Reason TV video above to learn more about the ideology, politics, and outcomes of modern urban planning.
About 6:30 minutes.
Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Shot by SharifMatar, PaulDetrick and Weissmueller.
Visithttp://reason.com/reasontv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.

published:18 Apr 2013

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Urban Planning: How to Create a Transit Friendly City Environment - Cities in the Balance Video

Almost two-thirds of American households reportedly aren’t prepared for a disaster. We talked to Jason Charles, a New York City firefighter and the organizer of the NYC Preppers Network, about why, in 2017, there’s now no good excuse for not planning for the worst.
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Urban Preppers: Is This New York’s Most Prepared Man? | NBC Left Field

Almost two-thirds of American households reportedly aren’t prepared for a disaster. We talked to Jason Charles, a New York City firefighter and the organizer of the NYC Preppers Network, about why, in 2017, there’s now no good excuse for not planning for the worst.
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The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation.
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The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation.
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New York City Zoning Resolution at 50 Years - Urban Planning

New York City's zoning resolution turns 50 in 2011. As the city has grown, so has this document -- it has increased by more than 900 pages and numerous new spec...

New York City's zoning resolution turns 50 in 2011. As the city has grown, so has this document -- it has increased by more than 900 pages and numerous new special districts have been created. Considering how dramatically the city has changed since 1961, does the resolution still adequately and comprehensively address the challenges the city faces today? Is it necessary to revamp or rewrite the regulations as many cities around the country are doing?

New York City's zoning resolution turns 50 in 2011. As the city has grown, so has this document -- it has increased by more than 900 pages and numerous new special districts have been created. Considering how dramatically the city has changed since 1961, does the resolution still adequately and comprehensively address the challenges the city faces today? Is it necessary to revamp or rewrite the regulations as many cities around the country are doing?

MetroFocus | The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan

Why NYCLooks the Way it Does? In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Manhattan's street grid, architects were asked to imagine the future of the city's master plan. Read about the competition on MetroFocus (http://ow.ly/7UtR5) and watch Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham's video tour of the project's exhibition.

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Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it po...

Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it's the city's great public spaces -- from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades -- where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city's newest public spaces, drawing on her experience as, surprisingly, an animal behaviorist. She shares the unexpected challenges of planning parks people love -- and why it's important.
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Planning A Resilient New York City

The NYC Department of City Planning created this short video to explain special zoning reg...

Planning A Resilient New York City

The NYCDepartment of City Planning created this short video to explain special zoning regulations that apply to the floodplain. This video is part of an extensive public campaign to share information on flood risk and flood resistant construction requirements. The goal of this outreach is to generate input on how to modify zoning rules to remove regulatory barriers to resiliency investments and make neighborhoods more resilient.
For more information, please visit http://www.nyc.gov/resilientneighborhoods
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Doug Henwood: Planning New York City

Downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for decades for low-rise buildings of modest econo...

Doug Henwood: Planning New York City

Downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for decades for low-rise buildings of modest economic aspirations, has recently witnessed a rising forest of "luxury" high-rises. How did this reversal come about? Read the full story at http://thenat.in/ZzPKej

7:15

Planning for an Urban World

Researchers and urban planners are turning New York City into a proving ground for Big Dat...

Planning for an Urban World

Researchers and urban planners are turning New York City into a proving ground for Big Data and the interactive technologies that one day might make a planet of cities sustainable and livable. Photo: Michael Rubenstein for The Wall Street Journal
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6:56

The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan--Curated by NYU's Hilary Ballon

Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
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Urban planning in Albany, New York

Despite Albany's prominence as the state capital of New York, over the years, large swaths...

Urban planning in Albany, New York

DespiteAlbany's prominence as the state capital of New York, over the years, large swaths of the city's urban core have been either destroyed or in decline.
Earlier this year, for the first time in the city's 400 year history, it adopted a comprehensive urban plan, aimed at turning things around.
It outlines ways to improve everything from public transportation, to education, and affordable housing over the next 20 years.
Reporter/producer/editor: Marie Cusick of WMHT-TVPhotographer: MikeMelita of WMHT-TV

4:28

Problems in Major Cities: New York City

This video was created for a Geography Project on the topic Problems in Major Urban Cities...

Problems in Major Cities: New York City

This video was created for a GeographyProject on the topic Problems in MajorUrbanCities. I decided to post it on Youtube bc I thought it might be educational (?) Hope it helps :)
PS there are some typos bc it was rushed since the due date alr passed.

2:25

NYC grid explained

In the early 19th century, John Randel Jr. set about planning what would become the gridde...

NYC grid explained

In the early 19th century, John Randel Jr. set about planning what would become the gridded street plan of Manhattan. Randel spent ten years walking the entirety of the city, marking each future intersection with either a bolt or marble monument. Two hundred years later, one of the bolts still survives in a hidden spot in Central Park.
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Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches

That bench won't be yours forever.
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Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches

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When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities are some of the most diverse places on the planet. They need to be built for a variety of needs.
In recent years, these competing interests have surfaced conflict over an unlikely interest: purposefully uncomfortable benches.
Enter the New York CityMTA. They’ve installed 'leaning bars’ to supplement traditional benches & save platform space. But designs like this carry an often invisible cost: they rob citizens of hospitable public space. And the people who experience this cost most directly are those experiencing homelessness.
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Buffalo: America's Best Designed City

The story of Buffalo, New York's world class urban design and how today's generation is re...

New York: America's MEGACITY

The story of New York City, America's megalopolis.
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"If you really believe that suburbs are going to die, then let them die, and let the market address the situation" says Joel Kotkin, Chapman University professor and urban planning specialist.
But letting the market work is far from ideal for California's regional planners and local politicians, who want almost 70 percent of new housing over the next 25 years to be multi-unit apartment-style dwelliings, despite the facts that more than half of Southern California households reside in a single-family home and that more people are leaving California than are coming in.
"In a great nation like ours, you can't let people do what they want. It has to be coordinated," says Hasan Ikhrata, the executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Ikhrata's group, which directs planning for the Southern California region via subsidies and contracting with big developers, foresees a future in which Southern California is dense, full of high-rise buildings, and connected by rail, much like New York City.
The problem is, LA isn't New York. No city but New York is New York, and attempts to force high-density, New York-style development onto areas that don't need it can result in terrible unintended consequences.
"Many people see a light rail and think the San Francisco trolley line," says Damien Goodmon, spokesman for the CrenshawSubwayCoalition. He lives in LA's historical black neighborhood Leimert Park and has seen the effects bad planning can have on established communities.
"You can have transit riders and still destroy a community," says Goodmon.
And the ultimate irony of the unending push for high-density planning in sprawling Southern California is that while, yes, Manhattan is denser than LA, if you zoom out a bit, LA-Long Beach-Anaheim is already the densest urban region in the United States. That happened without any sustained, conscious high-density housing development or state-of-the-art rail transit.
"One of the things that happens when you force this kind of high-density development is you destroy the very urban neighborhoods that retain the middle class," says Kotkin. "The neighborhoods have to fight this kind of guerilla-style."
Watch the Reason TV video above to learn more about the ideology, politics, and outcomes of modern urban planning.
About 6:30 minutes.
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